Women’s History

The Frances Willard House Museum, in partnership with the Evanston Women’s History Project and Shorefront Legacy Center, is proud to announce the first annual Tour Evanston Women’s History Map. The 2018 map will highlight fifteen women’s history sites throughout Evanston around the theme She Persisted. It will provide a fun, informative and relevant summer activity for self-guided…

Evanston Women’s History Project Announces March 2018 Events: Celebrating Evanston Women – Past, Present and Future The Evanston Women’s History Project at the Evanston History Center (EHC), in partnership with the Frances Willard House Museum and other Evanston women’s organizations, announces a full calendar of March 2018 events in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s…

Lori Osborne, Director of Archives & Outreach at the Evanston History Center, in celebration of Women’s History Month in March, joined Paige Harrington, Executive Director of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, Dr. Rosalyn Terborg Pen, University Professor Emerita, Morgan State University, and Kristina Myers, Program Director at the Alice Paul Institute, for a discussion on how the temperance and woman…

Lori Osborne is the Archivist at the Evanston History Center. This is the fourth and final post in a series on very early Evanston history, from millions of years ago to Evanston’s earliest settlers. Archange Ouilmette and her husband Antoine had a presence in our area until the 1840s, long after European settlers began to…

By Lori Osborne. Osborne is the Archivist at the Evanston History Center and Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project. Additionally, she recently joined the board of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. In early December, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to participate in a workshop held in Washington D.C. to…

Erin Hvizdak is an intern at the Evanston History Center and is getting her Masters in Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola. She holds a Masters in Library Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. If you visit the Evanston History Center you may see Erin helping in the archives, or giving tours. In the…

Join us for a morning celebration of International Women’s Day. Evanston women of all ages are invited to join us for a “Get To Know You” networking event. A light breakfast will be served. This event is free.

“A Life Worthwhile:”Lorraine H. Morton.Film Screening. Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7 p.m. (reception starts at 6:30 p.m.)EHC members are free!Click here to make a reservation.

Educator, Alderman, and Evanston’s first African American Mayor, Lorraine Hairston Morton served the Evanston community for over 50 years, guided by a simple statement her father passed down to her: “only a life of service, is a life worthwhile.” Join us for a screening of A Life Worthwhile, a film which documents and honors Morton’s life, career, and many accomplishments. The film is a production of Shorefront Films. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Presented in partnership with the Evanston Women’s History Project, the Frances Willard House Museum, and Shorefront Legacy Center.

EHC’s Women’s History Month programming is dedicated to Lorraine Morton.